The Regional Minister of Health, Manuela García, attended the plenary session of the Human Resources Commission of the National Health System in Madrid.

The Catalan Minister of Health, Manuela García, demanded ‘more dialogue’ from the Ministry of Health at the National Health System Human Resources Commission plenary session, held in Madrid, when it comes to drawing up the draft bill for the Framework Statute.

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The Balearic Islands demands dialogue with the Ministry to work on the drafting of the Framework Statute

Manuela García told the Minister of Health that she shares the need to reform the Framework Statute, the most important law for regulating the medical profession, which, moreover, has not been updated for more than 20 years. However, ‘we do not agree at all with the forms, the methodology, and even less so with some of the proposals contained in this draft’.

The Minister of Health emphasised that the only thing that the Ministry has achieved with its actions has been to turn the entire medical profession against it. ‘In the Balearic Islands, we are also extremely concerned about the unease felt by professionals, especially at a time when there is a lack of specialists in our health system. Our job must be to attract them, to attract them, to make them loyal. And this draft drawn up by the Ministry does exactly the opposite,’ criticised Manuela García.

In this sense, García expressed his discomfort and disagreement with the minister’s way of acting, without taking the autonomous communities into account. ‘We have emphasised that we have red lines that we will not cross and we have expressed our concern about the invasion of powers that the draft, which is not even accompanied by an economic report, represents’, she criticised.

For Manuela García, it is important to stress that the reform of the Framework Statute cannot be approached through confrontation, the invasion of competencies, the lack of funding and contempt for professionals, ‘it must be done through negotiation, joint work and consensus’, said the councillor.